Steampunk Universe

Steampunk Universe

A new, diverse steampunk anthology titled Steampunk Universe is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign has been live for a little over a week and it’s 45% funded. Edited by Sarah Hans, the anthology will feature the work of Ken Liu, Jody Lynn...
A Slightly Spooky Issue of Asimov’s

A Slightly Spooky Issue of Asimov’s

My poem “The Scientist’s Paramour” is out in the new October/November double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The editors have billed this as their “slightly spooky” issue: The magazine is jam-packed with stories about ghosts,...
The Fix-Up

The Fix-Up

Most avid fiction fans have probably read plenty of fix-ups, but they might not know the term for this type of book. A fix-up is a collection of short fiction in which the stories are linked so that the whole thing works as a coherent piece of long fiction. In other...
Shadowed Souls

Shadowed Souls

I’ll have a brand-new Jessie Shimmer story in the anthology Shadowed Souls, which will be released on November 1st. Co-edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, the book also features stories by Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat...
On Short Story Collections

On Short Story Collections

In publishing, a collection is a book of short pieces (stories, essays, or poetry) all written by the same author or co-authors. Contrast this with an anthology, which is a book of short stories (or, less often, essays or poetry) written by different authors. A...